Good causes
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Originally published 02:55 p.m., July 10, 2008
Updated 02:55 p.m., July 10, 2008
Travel expenses
Cheyenne Veatch, who will compete the National High School Rodeo Finals this month in Farmington, N.M., is raising expense money by holding a barbecued pork sandwich feed from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday at Mel’s Tire parking lot, 915 Graham St.
The meal will include the sandwich, plus baked beans, cheesy potatoes and tea for $5. Food will be served under tents set up at Mel’s.
Ice cream in Dunlap
The Dunlap United Methodist Women’s annual ice cream social will be Saturday, with serving beginning at 5 p.m. in the church fellowship hall. The menu includes various flavors of homemade ice cream, an assortment of pies and cakes and iced tea. There also will be a country store with baked items, crafts and garden products available to purchase. Donations will be used for UMW projects in the church and the community.
Barbecue for basketball
The Prime Time youth basketball team will sell Christian T-shirts and barbecued beef brisket sandwiches at the front door of Wal-Mart from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Donations will help the team with travel and entry fee expenses. For more information or donations, call Earl Williams, Working Healthy Benefit Specialist at the Emporia SRS service center, 481-9622.
For the horses
The Winding Road Equine Rescue and Retirement will be host for two karaoke fundraising events. The first will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Desperado’s, 802 Graham St. The second will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight July 19 at the Heidi Inn in Lebo. Proceeds will go toward the care of horses living at the rescue ranch in Waverly. For more information, call (785) 733-2640 or see www.windingroadequinerescue.org.
Cars for soldiers
Topeka radio station V100 (KDVV 100.3 FM) has teamed up with Army mother Amy Cantrell of Topeka to help her son, Capt. Nick Cantrell, who serves in Iraq, and the children of Sadr City where he is stationed by collecting new and used Hot Wheel cars or Matchbox cars, which Cantrell and his unit give to the children of Sadr City to help build a relationship between a U.S. soldier and a child of Iraq. The drop-off location in Emporia is Farm Bureau Financial Services, 915 Commercial St. The station would like more locations for the Capt. Nick Cantrell Hot Wheels Round-Up. For more information, call Joey Baggz, host of the V100 morning show, at (785) 272-2122 or see www.v100rocks.com.